taxpayers in avoiding their tax obligations. Attorney Audrey Strauss said: “As alleged, the individual defendants and the Swiss firm Allied Finance conspired to defraud the IRS by assisting U.S. Through a related civil forfeiture action, the Government forfeited approximately $2.2 million in CHINN’s untaxed funds and repatriated these funds from Singapore to the United States.
The case against CHINN is assigned to U.S. taxpayer-clients who participated in the tax fraud scheme. Lee also announced today the unsealing of the guilty plea of Wayne Franklyn Chinn, one of the U.S. One of the charged defendants was recently arrested in Spain. taxpayer-clients conceal more than $60 million in income and assets held in undeclared, offshore bank accounts and to evade U.S. Lee, Chief of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging six foreign individuals and a Swiss financial services company with conspiring to defraud the IRS by helping three high-value U.S. Goldberg, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and James C. Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Stuart M.
